BBC writes that a campaign promoting Egypt 's 75 year old chief of intelligence, General Omar Suleiman, as a candidate for future president has been banned.

Failed bilateral talks over these past 16 years have shown that a Middle East peace accord can never be reached by the parties themselves. Israeli governments believe they can defy

Stephan Roll has a new piece on the fissures in Egypt’s ruling elite in the Carnegie Endowment’s Arab Reform Bulletin. According to Roll, the National Democratic Party’s leadership is divided

Over at the Hudson Institute’s Hudson New York blog, Khaled Abu Toameh writes that Hosni Mubarak’s goal in attending the Middle East peace summit was to build support in the

King Abdullah II of Jordan was urged by US Human rights watch to free a student who was detained and accused of writing a poem criticizing the ruler.

Various political opposition parties and human rights organizations agreed on the signing of a petition sent to President Hosni Mubarak calling for integrity in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections.

IOF troops on Friday occupied two houses belonging Palestinians near the Keryat Arba' Jewish settlement in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, according to local sources.

IOF troops on Friday occupied two houses belonging Palestinians near the Keryat Arba' Jewish settlement in the southern West Bank city of al-Khalil, according to local sources.

The Israeli occupation authorities has decided to build a war dead memorial on lands that belong to Palestinian citizens in Sheikh Jarrah suburb in the occupied city of Jerusalem, well-informed

An Algerian ship loaded with aid for the besieged people of the Gaza Strip has arrived on Thursday at the Egyptian port of al-Areesh where the cargo will be unloaded